I know a couple of trustworthy agents if you need one. Here is one cctvsystem2011@hotmail.com. Tell her John sent you she should be able to help. If you have a list of items I may be able to help you if I know what you are looking for. Here is a link to a seller on alliexpress that can help also. just tell him John sent you and he will work with you also. Yuan can find items from taofocus if you provide him the link of the item. Here is one of his listings it should allow you to contact him. http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shi ... 29733.html

Yes, fouled storage is no fun. I <3 Taobao though! Vendors will work with you and send you samples, so you can figure out what you like before you buy a cake. Living in China is pretty good when you're into Chinese tea.

You could try taobaofocus.com, a very easy to use agent and you can pay with paypal. Just past the link of the item you want to buy on their website and after payment they will order it to their warehouse, when the items arrive you have to make a second payment for the shipping when everything is combined. Only thing I don't like is that they don't offer surface shipping anymore and now shipping to Spain runs quite pricey.

I just placed a trail order with taobaoring.com. They are cheaper and offer surface shipping so hopefully it will workout.

The issue with surface mail to Spain is it can take a long time, and if a buyer uses PayPal, he or she can start a dispute and force a full refund before the package arrives, so the Taobao agent loses a ton of money.

Taobao Focus is what I used before Taobao allowed us to use Hong Kong credit cards and bank accounts.